Collar support



A ril 16, 1935-. M. G. WORDINGHAM v 1,998,151

COLLAR SUPPORT Filed Aug. 7, 1935 Patented Apr. 16, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT orrica COLLAR SUPPORT Maurice G. Wordlng l Milwaukee. Wis- Application AW 7, 1933, Serial N0. 83,999

2 Claims. (Cl- 223-183) This invention appertains to laundry and more particularly to a novel collar support for laundered shirts to prevent the wrinkling and crushing of the collars incident to the handling and packing thereof in the laundry packages.

I am aware that there are many collar supports on the market and that patents have issued on such supports. All of these supports, with which I am familiar. are open to serious objections, from the standpoint of cost; others are diflicult to insert in place and others fail to adequately support the collars.

It has been proposed to provide a flexible strip or band (of cardboard) to fit within the collar and neckband of the shirt at the front thereof. While this strip is inexpensive and easy to place in position and forms a good support for the collar, the same will not stay in place and during the handling of the shirts the strips are often displaced and are often entirely shaken from the shirts. Notching or serrating the rear edges of the strip helps .to some extent to hold the strip in place, but where the collar is starched, the prongs formed by the serrations fail to bite into the smooth collar and consequently, are easily loosened.

It is therefore one of the prime objects of my invention to provide a collar support for laundered shirts embodying a flexible strip for insertion within the collar and neck band having novel means on the rear edges thereof for engaging under the collar band, wherebythe .strip will be held firmly in place irrespective of how careless the shirts are handled during the packing thereof.

Another salient object of my invention is the provision of wings or tabs formed on the lower rear comers of the strip, said tabs or wings engaging under the neck band and acting as means to firmly hold the strip in place.

A further object of my invention is to provide a collar support in which the rear edges of the strip are notched at the meeting point of the tabs or wings with said strip, the notches acting as means to receive *any fold of the shirt which may occur at the neck band.

A still further object of my invention is to provide an improved collar support for laundered shirts of the above character, which will be durable and efllcient in use, one that will be simple and easy to manufacture and one which can be placed upon the market at a reasonable cost.

with these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and formation of parts, as will be hereinafter more specifically described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:-

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a laundered shirt showing my improved support in place thereon.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of a laundered shirt showing the improved collar support in place.

Figure 3 is a detail plan view of the collar sup- 10 port per se showing the same in its spread-out condition.

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view taken substantially on the line 4-4 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows illustrating the en- 15 gagement of one of the tabs or wings with the shirt.

Referring to the drawing in detail, wherein similar reference characters designate the corresponding parts throughout the several views, the letter A generally indicates my collar support and B a laundered shirt with which the same can be used. The shirt B is of the type having a collar 5 permanently secured to the neck band 6.

My improved collar support A is preferably formed from an elongated flexible strip III, which can be made from thin cardboard or the like.

The upper and lower edges of the strip III are of an arcuate shape and in use, the strip is bent into a substantially U-shape for insertion within the collar of a shirt, as is clearly illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing. The strip l0 preferably has a greater width than the height of the collar so that the same will project slightly above the collar and thus, act as a guard for the 5 same. The inherent resiliency of the strip tends to hold the strip smoothly against the inside of the collar.

In order to prevent accidental displacement of the strip Ill and in accordance with my invention, I form integrally with the rear lower cornersof the strip in rearwardly projecting wings or tabs I i and I2. These wings or tabs are insertedunder the collar and neck band of the shirt and function to securely lock the strip in place, and the shirt can be readily handled without danger of displacing the support or strip.

It often happens that there will be a wrinkle or fold of the material from which the shirt is formed directly under the collar or neck band and thus, the rear edge of the strip It at the point of connection of the tabs II and I2 therewith is notched as at It. This notch will receive the fold of the material, as is clearly illustrated in Figure 4 of the drawing.

I lay particular stress on the location and formationotthetabsorwings II and mint-hat atter numerous experiments and in actual use, I have found that these tabs or wings function admirably to prevent displacement oi the support or strip.

Changes in details may be made without departing from the spirit or the scope of my invention, but what I claim as new is:-

I. As a new article of manufacture, a collar support for laundered shirts comprising, an elongated flat strip including a body and tabs on the lower corners oi the body, said tabs forming continuatlons ot the body and lying parallel therewith and projecting a material distance beyond the rear edges of the body for hooking under the shirtband,theupperedgeothetabbeingsubstantially parallel to the lower edge-oi the body.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a collar support for laundered shirts comprising, an elongated flat strip including a body and tabs on the lower corner of the body, said tabs forming continuations ot the body and lying parallel therewith and projecting a material distance beyond the rear edges 01' the body for hooking under the shirtband, the upper edge 01' the tab being substantially parallel to the lower edge of the body, said tabsand the body at their points of connection being provided with notches to receive any told of the shirt at the neckband.

MAURICE G. WORDINGHAM. 

